Thursday, August 14, 2008

Summer

How goes your summer? Have you been taking it easy? Relaxing? Good for you. It has been beautiful here in Michigan the last week or so. Kind of unusual in that it is in the seventies and not too humid. I know I have been enjoying it. Work does go on though...... in between getting pattern designs ready to go to the printer and hand quilting a quilt, We are working on future fabric designs. Polly is hooking like mad in Florida and we are scanning, emailing, and calling many times a day. All of this for a future Christmas fabric line. Maybe you can help! We are painfully lame in naming things. Our rugs, quilts, fabrics all are either woefully named, or we get the names from someone else. Just take a gander up at the name of this blog. Sad, isn't it? We came up with that name all by ourselves. So, just post a comment and suggest a name for the new collection. We can't promise it will make the final cut - but hey, it's got to be better than what we come up with. Oh, and if you comment by Saturday at Midnight we will draw names out of a hat and the winner will get a jelly roll of our next fabric collection - "American Primer."

I just wanted to say hi and that I simply love your fabric design, it's just wonderful! I just ordered some of the gorgeous "winter" collection (love that simple name and the adorable design that hide behind it).Sadly, as I'm not a native speaker, I'm quite bad with wordplays and it seems that most of the fabric lines are named this way...hmm...what about Secret Santa? Or Jolly Jul ...and Naughty Nick {well, that's a little bit too special, *g*}...oh, I'm getting silly...so I should go to bed.Good night, Julia

Well, since I can't see any of the designs yet to know what the fabric and designs look like here are some ideas for Christmas.Jolly HolidayDecember MagicAll is Merry and BrightChristmas JoyWintergreenA Wee Bit of ChristmasThat's all I can think of.

from another quilter that has a hard time naming things (including kids) depending on your color way for the Christmas line you could use any of these words in combination....yule tideyule logwinter solsticewinter festivalgiftmistletoeholly twelfth night

How exciting to be working on another fabric line, it's a wonder how you manage to create something new each time. Here the summer hasn't even ended and your thinking of next christmas, granted that this christmas is still a couple of months off. I'm still in summer vacation mode. Once the kids are back in school I'm hoping to venture back into my sewing room for some R&R.

A couple of names for the new line might be:1. Winter Traditions2. Magic Holiday3. Snow Drops

I loved your Prairie Paisley line. I have lots but haven't used it yet. Its hard to think of a name for a line I haven't seen. My first thought was Prairie Christmas or Christmas on the Prairie. Good Luck coming up with a name.

Okay - I do love your site and nothing wrong with the name - it makes a statement.Stars at ChristmasStarry SeasonsSeason of StarsChristmas Folk Stars I'm guessing there will be stars in the fabric !!!!

Sorry, I can be just as lame in naming things. I am not very original, that's why I am a good consumer, let me buy fabric and patterns and I can copy as well as anyone else. Seems that so many others are able to leave such interesting names, but I will try, my suggestion ( lame as it is ) would be Heavenly Holidays. Good luck to one and all.